A STORY OF A MONK.

Many hundreds of years ago there dwelt in a cloister
a monk named Urban, who was remarkable for his earnest
and fervent piety. He was a studious reader of
the learned and sacred volumes in the convent library.
One day he read in the Epistles of St. Peter the words,
“One day is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day;” and this saying
seemed impossible in his eyes, so that he spent many
an hour in meditating upon it.